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"Nonsense! Nobody canIndeed! Pah! You'll have to be shown that

somebody can I can Nobody" He

noise "More likely you can't They have done so's crushed your pluck You can't face a man--that's what it is

What made you like this? Where do you come from? You have been put

upon The scoundrels--whoever they are, men or women, seem to have

robbed you of your very name You say you are not Miss Smith Who are

you, then?"

She did not answer He muttered, "Not that I care," and fell silent,

because the fatuous self-confident chatter of the Fyne girls could be

heard at the very gate But they were not going to bed yet They passed

on He waited a little in silence and immobility, then starowled at her in a savage passion She

felt certain that he was threatening her and calling her naer to abuse, as we know, but there seemed to be a particular

kind of ferocity in this which was new to her She began to tre was that she could not make out the nature of

these awful